What's Known About the PS3

1up has an expansive piece up exploring everything they know about the PlayStation 3. They cover rumours, prices, technology, and the limited information currently out there on upcoming games. From the article: "While the hard facts are still tough to nail down, the general consensus is that the PlayStation 3 is the most powerful of the three next-generation systems, although probably not by as much of a margin as Sony would like us to think. The arguments for the technical strengths of the PS3 go into CPU floating-point capabilities and the difficulties surrounding programming for parallel architectures, but the long and short of it is that whether or not the advantages of the PS3 are apparent will depend on developers' ability to utilize the PlayStation 3's unique architecture."

With any luck...

[PastAustin]

It won't cost $1,000,000 and thanks to Sony not having Microsoft's "Rush To The Market" attitude you don't have to worry about it melting to your carpet!

The next gen Phantom

[British]

...is the PS3. Yes, this will have TWICE the delays with its new marketing and rumor engine. Capable of thousands of speculations a second!

(it's a joke kids, someday that PS3 will come out).

More emphasis on functional languages.

[CyricZ]

In the near future we may see more emphasis being placed on strict functional languages, such as Haskell, for such massively multithreaded and parallel development at the commodity level. Many of the issues associated with concurrent development with traditional imperative or imperative OO languages can be avoided via stateless computation.

Even a language like Erlang may begin to gain widespread popularity among game developers, as they begin to see the benefits that it brings when writing multithreaded applications.

With more industry support behind such technology, we may witness a computing revolution. It has been decades in the making, but its time is quickly coming upon us.

Re:With any luck...

[Dimentox]

Thats a feature of the X-Box 360, "a portable foot heater and Cooking stove."

Other things known about the PS3:

[dr_dank]

Other things known about the PS3:

* It is not a strapless evening gown.

* Ducks may not try to mate with it.

* It is not a flotation device.

* Is not a good substitute for snow chains.

* It will not remove tough grease stains.

* It will not get you an automatic first post on Slashdot.

Things we know about the PS3:

[Anonymous Coward]

1. It will cost $900
2. It will come out in late 2007
3. It will not have an online service
4. It will not have vents
5. It will be illegal and impossible to play used or rented games on the PS3
6. It will not be capable of reading from or writing to memory
7. The Cell chip will mean that it will require nine billion dollars to develop a single game
8. XBox fanboy bloggers are always right

Re:With any luck...

[PastAustin]

FTA: Even Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has been quoted as saying "It'll be expensive [...] I'm aware that with all these technologies, the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households."


Hell Yes! I've always wanted a PS3 at work. I knew it would happen!

Re:But..Over a Barrel.

[Winterblink]

I can't imagine true physics in a Mario game. Wait, maybe I can.

Mario tries to jump over a fence, but his foot catches. Small splinters of wood are torn from the wood as he comes tumbling over the fence. He tries to brace himself for the fall, but breaks his arm. Game over.

Or, he tries to buttstomp some shroom and ends up with an impacted vertebrae and shattered pelvis.

Re:More power, $400, Anime Dating, Puppies

[amliebsch]

OKAY. We GET it. You have Microsoft stock. You can stop mentioning it in practically every thread you post in.

Re:But..Over a Barrel.

[XenoRyet]

Realistic physics != vunurable character.

Just because the turtles bounce like they should doesn't mean Mario can't have super-human abilities.

Re:Other things known about the PS3:

[Anonymous Coward]

* It is not a flotation device.

The Nintendo Revolution, on the other hand...

Re:Other things known about the PS3:

[Have Blue]

* Do not taunt PS3.

Re:Other things known about the PS3:

[WillAffleckUW]

Other things known about the PS3:

* It is not a strapless evening gown.

But, you will be able to play games where female anime characters with big guns and ... um ... big guns are wearing strapless evening gowns.

And also martial arts games where you can have female characters with said gowns.

If you're into that kind of thing.

Re:Other things known about the PS3:

[God'sDuck]

* Not particularily useful against an insurgency.

actually, massive distribution of collaborative video games to bored youth could significantly divert the teenage need for entertainment and belonging away from pseudoreligious/ethnic street gangs...bread and circuses: highly underrated in current foreign policy.

Re:Graphics power

[Anonymous Coward]

Spore is innovative, yeah. But it isn't made by a smaller developing company with little to no backing, it's made by Will Wright and co.

Also known as Maxis.

Which had their name on all the SimCities, and two little games by the name of The Sims.

And all the expansion packs.

They are not exactly short on capital, is what I'm saying here.

Re:But..Over a Barrel.

[Guppy06]

"Just because the turtles bounce like they should"

Hate to burst your bubble, but in real life, turtles don't bounce very well.

(But they are nature's suction cup!)